22 letters found
- 728 Vincent van Gogh and Félix Rey to Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 2 January 1889.
- in translation:
...m writing you these few words in the office of Mr Rey, the house physician, whom you saw yourself. Iâ...
Rey F.
- in note 1:
...ere he was treated by the resident physician Félix Rey. Rey assisted the chief physician, Marie Jule...
- 732 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 7 January 1889.
- in translation:
Mr Rey came to see the painting with two of his doctor friends, and they at least understand darned q...
If ever you want to make the house physician Rey very happy, this is what would give him great pleasu...
- in note 14:
...ave sent the print shortly afterwards, since Félix Rey already thanked him on 12 February 1889: ‘I...
- in note 2:
Van Gogh painted a portrait of Rey in mid-January (F 500 / JH 1659); he did not paint any other portr...
- in note 1:
It is not known which two doctors of Rey’s acquaintance Vincent is referring to. Two chief surgeons...
- 735 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 9 January 1889.
- in translation:
...nd walked for an hour and a half with the house physician, and we talked a little about everything, ...
Don’t forget The anatomy lesson for Mr Rey. He had already told me before this morning that he like...
...t precisely because I wholly agree with you that it would be good to put Mr Rey in touch with Rivet.
...ndeed tell Rivet that it would be good to send Mr Rey back here to the hospital with the doctor’s q...
- in note 15:
...Provence. The passage was no doubt prompted by Dr Rey’s involvement in fighting the smallpox epidem...
- in note 6:
...d asked Theo to buy the engraving after Rembrandt’s Anatomy lesson for Rey; see letter 732, n. 14.
- in note 2:
Félix Rey.
- 736 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 17 January 1889.
- in translation:
...ready have 3 studies done in the studio plus the portrait of Mr Rey, which I gave him as a keepsake.
Rey told me that being very impressionable was enough to have had what I had as regards the crisis, a...
Just because you wrote a note to Mr Rey saying you would introduce him in Paris, I thought you meant ...
...I was doing anything compromising by saying to Mr Rey myself that if he went to Paris it would give m...
- in note 15:
...lso arose in letter 735. On 30 December 1888 Félix Rey had written to Theo: In a few months, when I ...
- in note 14:
...red. That is a great loss for him. The house physician at the hospital is now the one who can be of ...
- 738 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 19 January 1889.
- in translation:
...in regaining my strength if the cold continues. Rey will give me some quinine wine, which I dare bel...
...you haven’t forgotten The anatomy lesson for Mr Rey. Later I myself will always have need of a doct...
- in note 12:
...sked Theo to buy the engraving after Rembrandt’s Anatomy lesson for Dr Rey; see letter 732, n. 14.
- 740 To Arnold Koning. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 22 January 1889.
- in translation:
...vent, on leaving the hospital I painted my own doctor’s portrait. And haven’t yet altogether lost...
- 743 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 28 January 1889.
- in note 10:
...ll) for two or three days, as emerges from Dr Félix Rey’s letter of 17 March 1922 to Gustave Coqu...
- 745 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 3 February 1889.
- in translation:
... very tired at that precise moment, and as the doctor had absolutely ordered me to go for walks witho...
...ave any illusions. It’s going very, very well and I’ll do everything that the doctor says but...
...physical powers return. But I’ve already told Rey that at the slightest serious symptom I’d come...
- in note 1:
Dr Félix Rey.
- 747 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 18 February 1889.
- in translation:
...at I’m saying once and for all to you and to Mr Rey. If sooner or later it were desirable that I sh...
...h friendship already from the neighbours, from Mr Rey, from everyone at the hospital for that matter,...
- in note 1:
On 12 February Dr Rey wrote to Theo: ‘The first day, he was greatly overexcited, and his delirium w...
- 749 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 16 March 1889.
- in translation:
...ews of you, for apart from the letters from Messrs Rey and Salles I don’t know anything about you.
- in note 4:
...see n. 1 above). The last surviving letter from Rey to Theo dates from 12 February (FR b1057). For t...
- 750 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 19 March 1889.
- in translation:
I’ll read this letter as it stands to Mr Rey, who isn’t responsible, having been ill himself – ...
I had hoped that Mr Rey would come to see me in order to talk with him before sending this letter, bu...
- in note 10:
... an envelope (see Additional details). Here Van Gogh reiterates what he said about Rey in ll. 35-36.
- 752 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 24 March 1889.
- in translation:
Mr Rey says that instead of eating enough and regularly I have been particularly sustaining myself wi...
- in note 1:
His kind doctor, the house physician Rey, believes that if he had a very methodical life, eating and ...
- 754 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Thursday, 4 April 1889.
- in translation:
... in any case, as I was advised by Mr Salles and Rey, at Easter. I told Roulin that having done many ...
- 756 To Paul Signac. Arles, Wednesday, 10 April 1889.
- in note 6:
...reports that this small apartment was owned by Dr Rey. As the house physician, Rey lived at the hospi...
- 758 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, between about Sunday, 14 and about Wednesday, 17 April 1889.
- in translation:
... belong to Mr Rey. It’s certainly not expensive, but not nearly as nice as the other studio.Mr Rey
- 760 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 21 April 1889.
- in translation:
...ations – but I ask you, and Messrs Salles and Rey, to act so that at the end of the month or the b...
But you’ll do me a service by tackling the question forthrightly with Mr Salles and Mr Rey.
...an institution like that will be. Be aware that Rey is overburdened with work, overburdened. If he o...
Rey is a really good fellow, terribly hard-working, always at the daily grind. What people today’s ...
...bout? I regret causing trouble to Mr Salles, to Rey, especially also to you, but what can one do –...
- in note 8:
Rey was occupied by such things as the smallpox epidemic raging in Arles from October 1888 until the ...
- 761 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Wednesday, 24 April 1889.
- in translation:
80 francs must and can suffice, says Mr Salles. Rey warns me that at St-Rémy it wouldn’t go amiss ...
- 763 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 28 April 1889.
- in translation:
Besides, Rey and I have already joked about it sometimes, for he says that love is also a microbe, wh...
- 776 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Thursday, 23 May 1889.
- in translation:
... epileptics bite their tongues and injure them. Rey told me that he had known a case where someone h...
- 778 Joseph Ginoux to Vincent van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 31 May 1889.
- in note 1:
...a work that Van Gogh had given to his doctor,Félix Rey. Rey, at any rate, is the only hospital emplo...
- 789 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 14 or Monday, 15 July 1889.
- in translation:
...ay for two months, then to the hospital to see Mr Rey, whom I didn’t find either. So we spent the d...
...ndulgent towards me then. Someone told me that Mr Rey had taken an examination and had been to Paris,...
- in note 19:
A letter from Rey to Theo of 30 December 1888 reveals that he had to defend his doctoral thesis in Pa...
- 792 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Tuesday, 16 July 1889.
- in translation:
...hen you went to Arles not to find Mr Salles, or Rey either. I’ve had a letter from the former. Heâ...
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2 other items found
- Documentation
- in documentation:
Félix Rey to Theo van Gogh. Arles, 29 December 1888 (FR
b1055).Félix Rey
Rey Félix’
Félix Rey to Theo van Gogh. Arles, 30 December 1888 (FR
1056).Félix Rey
Rey Fe’
Félix Rey to Theo van Gogh. Arles, 12 February 1889 (FR
b1057).Félix Rey
Rey Félix’
- Chronology
- in 1888:
...reakdown. Cuts off his ear and is admitted to hospital the next day (728). His doctor is Félix Rey.
Term(s):
Dated between:
29 September 1872 and 31 July 1890
Person:
Félix Rey (1865-1932) assistant physician in the hospital in Arles
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